kaskeset · scale

What it means

kaskeset (קַשְׂקֶשֶׂת) is a Hebrew word of the Bible that means “scale”.

Of a fish; also the plates of a coat of armor.

How to say it

Approximate pronunciation. Vowels sound as in Spanish (a as in father, e as in bed, i as in machine, o as in note, u as in rule); the syllable in bold is stressed. The voice is your device's.

Its senses in the Bible

1. The plates covering a fish; also those of armor.

From Brown-Driver-Briggs (1906)

Where it appears

• Leviticus×3
• Deuteronomy×2
• 1 Samuel×1
• Ezekiel×2

• Leviticus 11:9

  These you may eat of all that is in the waters: everything that has fins and scales in the waters, in the seas and in the streams, those you may eat.

• Leviticus 11:10

  But everything that has no fins and scales in the seas and in the streams, among all the swarming things of the waters and among all the living beings that are in the waters, they shall be a detestable thing for you.

• Leviticus 11:12

  Everything that has no fins and scales in the waters, it shall be a detestable thing for you.

• Deuteronomy 14:9

  This you may eat of all that is in the water: all that has fins and scales you may eat.

• Deuteronomy 14:10

  And all that does not have fins and scales you shall not eat; it is unclean for you.

• 1 Samuel 17:5

  A helmet of bronze was on his head, and with a coat of scales he was clothed; and the weight of the coat was five thousand shekels of bronze.

• Ezekiel 29:4

  And I will put hooks in your jaws, and I will make the fish of your channels stick to your scales; and I will bring you up from the midst of your channels, and all the fish of your channels will stick to your scales.

And 1 more times.